The Retreat of the West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6325253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Trubowitz (0000-0003-2200-091X, London School of Economics and Political Science), Brian Burgoon (0000-0002-7300-0541, University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 102-122 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592720001218 |
| OpenAlex | W3013062566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 65 |
The West is turning inward. Donald Trump’s presidency, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, and the spread of populist parties in Europe are the most visible signs of this retreat. The shift is not as recent as these examples suggest, however. Drawing on an array of cross-national data for twenty-four industrialized democracies and hundreds of political parties in those democracies, we show that domestic support for liberal internationalism has been receding for twenty-five years across the West. We show that since the end of the Cold War a large and widening gap has opened up between Western democracies’ international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support them. As Western governments came to rely increasingly on economic globalization, institutionalized cooperation, and multilateral governance, mainstream parties that backed these efforts lost electoral ground to parties on the radical-left and increasingly, the anti-globalist radical-right that have been the vehicles of the current backlash. We discuss the implications of these trends for the Western liberal international order and the strategies now on offer to repair it
Backlash · Cold war · Development economics · Economics · European union · Globalization · International trade · Internationalism (politics · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Radical right · Sociology · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Economic Narratives and the Legitimacy of Foreign Direct Investments
Brexit and the trust paradox of sovereigntist internationalism
Do Parties Matter? Party Positions and European Voters’ Attitudes toward Economic and Political Globalization
Globaloney
Partisan cueing and preferences for fiscal integration in the European Union
Trade and the transnational cleavage in European party politics
Present at the invasion
Embedded liberalism or embedded nationalism? How welfare states affect anti-globalisation nationalism in party platforms
Learning from precedent
Politicizing International Cooperation
The Backlash Against Globalization
Party systems and voter alignments
A Political Economy of American Hegemony
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
New Parties in Old Party Systems
Crises of Democracy
Strategy in the Missile Age
Mapping Policy Preferences ii
Great Delusion
After Victory
Mapping Policy Preferences
Positional deprivation and support for radical right and radical left parties
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Democracy and the global order
Party System Change
Politics and Strategy
Restraint
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The Vital Center
The Radical Right in Western Europe
Great Transformations
America and the Japanese Miracle
Liberal Internationalism 3.0
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European integration as a peace project
Globalization and backlash
Center of Gravity
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Japan's Defense Policy
Dead Center
America Abroad
America and the Japanese Miracle
Empire of Liberty
The Vital Center
The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism
Cleavage theory meets Europe’s crises
Empire by Invitation? The United States and Western Europe, 1945-1952
The Origins of Human Rights Regimes
Radical distinction
The Trade Origins of Economic Nationalism
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
After victory
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Scaling Policy Preferences from Coded Political Texts
The Acceptability of War and Support for Defense Spending
Partisanship, Trade Policy, and Globalization
Inequality and anti-globalization backlash by political parties
The Electoral Consequences of Offshoring
Treating Words as Data with Error
Human Rights Institutions, Sovereignty Costs and Democratization
The effects of wars on neutral countries
Expert Interpretations of Party Space and Party Locations in 42 Societies
The Populist Zeitgeist
International regimes, transactions, and change
The end of liberal international order
The US-Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana
The Unipolar Moment
Rich Nation, Strong Army
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |